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Journalism
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Tax and the family home
Love/hate: Liberals and the media
The Liberals aren’t media savvy, although they long to be media darlings. Liberals need to be wiser in their dealings with journalists, writes Gerard Henderson.
Rudd is boring but we like him anyway
Yes, PM Kevin Rudd is boring for journalists. But Australians don’t want entertaining, scandalous politicians right now and Rudd’s stableness is serving them well, writes David Penberthy.
Reporter tweets being shot
Deputy editor of British paper Post and Echo was caught in some biker crossfire over the weekend and like a good journo he live tweeted the entire event.
Music journalism for dummies
Steps include doing no research on MySpace, scrawling incomprehensible notes and capturing the zeitgeist.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey defends use of anonymous sources
In today’s letters section, journalist Brian Toohey questions Crikey’s use of an anonymous source and his (her!) “unsubstantiated surmise about the ‘religious nutter’ Frank Costigan.”
Stranger than fiction: who the f-ck is Harry Nicolaides?
The Melbourne writer has been famously jailed in Thailand, but surely he must have seen the trouble coming, writes Neil Walker.
The carbon footprint of lazy journalism
Think of all the carbon emissions that are saved by lazy editors and journalists who don’t bother fact-checking PR, writes Ruth Brown.
Infanticide in PNG: don’t let truth stand in the way of a good story
Media outlets around the world recycled a story from PNG last week about women murdering their male babies to end a tribal war. What a shame it wasn’t true, writes Eleri Harris.
Media briefs: Brendan Nelson v Jeff Fenech? … Paper is so last year
Brendan Nelson v Jeff Fenech? … Paper is so last year … The curious case of the vanishing newspaper … Did PBS duck the torture issue? … Tony the Tiger pops up on the web
Krugman should’ve got the Nobel Prize for journalism
Paul Krugman didn’t get the prize for his journalism. But he should have, writes Nicholas Gruen.
Beecher: The unravelling economics of newspapers
Under enormous pressure to prop up their bottom lines, newspapers in most developed countries are resorting to a cocktail of short-term measures, writes Eric Beecher.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
After trawling the Canberra Press Gallery, The Australian’s senior writer, former Fairfax editor John Lyons, was disturbed to find a group of journalists living in fear of professional intimidation and random outbursts of intemperate language from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s senior staff. His thesis — that two 28-year-old Rudd minders are terrorising the 200-odd representatives of the national media — is alarming. […]
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Melbourne Channel Nine News’ third top news story involved a scoop about a group of bridesmaids who were forced to wear tracksuits to a wedding when their dresses didn’t turn up.
Moves to define “journalism” in the eyes of the law
Astonishingly there is no definition of journalism in Australian law. That’s one of the revelations in the ALRC’s paper on privacy law reform and it’s of great relevance because the Commission wants to define journalism in a way that will reduce the media’s capacity to report freely.
The insidous rise of the Video News Release
The best kind of PR is invisible and often the best kind of invisible PR is that which looks like news. Mix this with the fact that news rooms are downsizing and you have the rationale for a growing reliance on an insidious form of PR known as the Video News Release.
Newspapers need strong proprietors to survive
When ABC Managing Director Mark Scott was in senior management at Fairfax, his critics – of whom there were many - generally wrote him off as a creature of the CEO, Fred Hilmer, who was reviled almost as much when he was there as he has been since his departure.
